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说到至今对我影响最为深远的一位“老师”，我会很自然地想到我的奶奶。虽然年事已高，皱纹爬满眼角，奶奶却依然持有一颗难得的童心！在她眼里，岁月留痕，年华老去，此乃人生常态，而知足者常乐！这份豁达和坦然尤其令我印象深刻。
有人说，晚年是人的第二次童年。本期让我们一起来看看几位饱经生活洗礼的老者们如何享受这珍贵的“童年”——有人为未竞的梦想继续打拼，成为著名的“芭蕾爷爷”；有人重觅爱情，与爱人一起慢慢变老；有人继续发挥自身余热，为提高人们对全球变暖的认识而奔走疾呼……可见，最美“夕阳红”，老年亦精彩！
当你老了，去疗养院不失为一个“安全”的选择，但其实你更需要的是温暖以及爱。随着全球面临日趋严重的老龄化问题，我们有必要反思一下当下的“老龄产业”——或许是未来的朝阳产业——想想该如何尽己所能让人们的老年生活过得更有意义、更有盼头！我们都会渐渐老去，但在我看来， “老有所为，老有所乐”才是“优雅”地老去！ -Maisie
John Lowe, a war veteran, is about to perform on stage as the world’s oldest ballet dancer.
At the 1)grand old age of 90, John Lowe will join dancers from the 2)Lantern Dance Theatre Company—who are more than half his age for a performance of 3)Strauss’s An Artist’s Life.
The Grandfather to 11, John Lowe, of 4)Witchford, only 5)took up ballet having watched his daughter, Alison, become a professional dancer when he was 79. And at the age of 88, he 6)starred in his first ballet production—performing as the woodcutter in 7)Prokofiev’s The Stone Flower.
John Lowe, who fought in Malaysia and India in the Second World War before being captured by the Japanese, said he loves performing on stage.
退伍老兵约翰·罗伊就要上台表演了,他将成为世界上年龄最大的芭蕾舞演员。
在90岁高龄之际,约翰·罗伊将与“灯之舞剧团”的舞者们一起演出小约翰·施特劳斯的作品《艺术家的生涯》——其他那些舞者的年龄是他的一半有余。
作为11个孩子的祖父,家住威奇福德市的约翰·罗伊是在看到女儿艾莉森成为职业舞者后才开始学习芭蕾舞的,当时他已经79岁。88岁时,他主演了自己的第一部芭蕾舞作品——在普罗科菲耶夫的作品《宝石花》中扮演一名木雕师。
约翰·罗伊在第二次世界大战期间曾在马来西亚和印度作战,后被日本人俘虏。他说他热爱在舞台上演出。
“Dancing is the most amazing feeling and you come home mentally uplifted after listening to all this brilliant music. It’s fantastic exercise too,” the retired art teacher said. “I think it’s a wonderful thing to do and I can’t understand why more men don’t do it. There’s nothing 8)effeminate about it—you have to be incredibly fit to dance. I see these people crawling around, 9)hunched over smoking a cigarette—they should be doing ballet.”
To maintain his fitness, Mr Lowe has even installed a 10)trapeze on his living room ceiling and hangs from it each morning to increase his muscle power. He also practices three times a week in 11)Ely’s Chequer Studio, as well as perfecting his 12)pirouettes and 13)pliés each day at his home. His home also 14)boasts a ballet 15)bar where he 16)hones his knee-bends and arm movements so he can 17)prime his body for the demands of dancing.
“It’s a wonderful feeling. I had always wanted to dance and it’s never too late to learn,” he said. “I practise each day. I’m lucky that I don’t have any problem with the 18)routines but that’s because I exercise.”
Always a lover of dance, he had used his love of the 19)theater to help him through his three years as a prisoner of the Japanese during the Second World War.
“I remember being in the prisoner of war camp, starving and doing hard labour, and thinking I might not make it. But look at me now. I love dance,” Mr. Lowe said.
One of his dance teachers, Helen Pettitt, of the Chequer Studio, where Mr. Lowe has been training, said: “I am sure if things had been different he could have been a dancer. I have been amazed at his flexibility, and how strong he is. He doesn’t jump how he would like to but he dances in his own way and he is quite amazing.”
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